About ALT-F1
ALT-F1 is an IT company based in Brussels, founded in 2010. We build business software and help organisations protect their systems and data.
What we do now
Our seven services can be selected individually or combined around your organisation’s needs.
- Device Shield — Protection for your devices and office network.
- Web App Shield — Protection for websites, online shops and application connections.
- Custom Software — Business applications built around your work.
- Private AI — AI tools running on a server in your office.
- Sovereign Storage — Protected backup copies and files in Belgium.
- Sovereign Code — Company source code with controlled access.
- Workshops — Practical training with something useful to keep.
Our storage partner
ALT-F1 resells Optimal AI’s S3-compatible object storage hosted in Belgium, for backups, application files and artificial-intelligence (AI) data. S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the interface used by compatible software to store and retrieve files.
The service starts 1 February 2027. See Sovereign Storage — Optimal AI for the launch offer and a quote.
Company background
ALT-F1 was incorporated in October 2010 after its CEO spent 15 years designing, implementing and supporting mostly public administrations dealing with law enforcement, justice and serious international crime.
ALT-F1 are the keys you press to get support from a software application.
The logo represents a round table around which people participate to bring their experience and knowledge. The innovation created during the conversations is represented by the jet of water on top of the logo.
ALT-F1 has delivered projects in Digital Transformation, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data and Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technology, Digital Workplace, IT Strategy, Infrastructure — Manufacturing, Digital Health, Maintenance-Repair-Overhaul (MRO), Warehousing, Broadcast, Banking, Insurance, Defense, Automotive, Law Enforcement, Justice and Serious International Crime.
Since 2010
- 2023 — we helped Smals, an ICT service provider for the federal government, transition to the public cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- 2022 — we supported the implementation of the Digital Workplace at Paradigm, a public interest organization driving digital transformation in the Brussels-Capital Region.
- 2021 — we assisted Paradigm in migrating to a public cloud infrastructure with Microsoft Azure.
- 2020 — we contributed to the Open Science community by assisting researchers and public administrations in addressing the COVID-19 crisis and formulating decontainment strategies.
- 2017 — we supported our clients’ innovation processes by helping their business teams develop business models, build proofs of concept, and present their vision to management.
- 2016 — we drafted the project plan for ENTOC (Engineering Tool Chain for Efficient and Iterative Development of Smart Factories), which would have enabled AMIA Systems to partner with Daimler and Volvo Trucks.
- 2014 — we drafted the project plan that led to AMIA Systems being awarded the title of “Most Innovative Startup in Brussels”.
- 2012 — StratEx, a project management solution, was developed based on a decade of accumulated experience.
- 2010 — we supported AMIA Consulting, later AMIA Systems, a spin-off of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in transforming the results of a Ph.D. thesis into a product called SIMOGGA. Incorporated in May 2014, AMIA Systems’ mission is to optimize shop floor layouts, enabling manufacturers to compete with low-wage countries.
Facts
- Legal name: ALT-F1 SRL
- Enterprise and VAT number: BE 0830.560.718
- Registered office: Drootbeekstraat 13, 1020 Brussels (Laken), Belgium
- Incorporated: October 2010
- Founder and CEO: Abdelkrim Boujraf
- Working languages: French, Dutch, English
- Security contact: security@alt-f1.be, see security.txt